>>>> "SY" == Steve Youngs
<youngs(a)xemacs.org> writes:
MS> is t when the process is a zombie? In my particular case, if
MS> XEmacs did a wait*() to cleanup the child, it wouldn't matter
MS> anyway. For some reason XEmacs is updating the display but
MS> not reaping dead children... :-(
SY> The first two people I'd be asking would be Ben Wing or Martin
SY> Buchholz. Unfortunately, Ben has just started a vacation in
SY> Italy and Martin is on a sabbatical of unknown duration.
Nix is the guy to ask, I think. He had a flurry of patches about race
conditions etc related to the process code. Kyle Jones had some
input, too.
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